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Sarah Vowell

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I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed. - Sarah Vowell
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I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln. - Sarah Vowell
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I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms. - Sarah Vowell
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I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good. - Sarah Vowell
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Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are? - Sarah Vowell
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Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge. - Sarah Vowell
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One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes. - Sarah Vowell
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I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old. - Sarah Vowell
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History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting. - Sarah Vowell
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I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy. - Sarah Vowell
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I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further. - Sarah Vowell
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Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot. - Sarah Vowell
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Relics are treasured as something close to the divine. - Sarah Vowell
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I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in. - Sarah Vowell
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The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War - when I really think about them, they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea. - Sarah Vowell
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